SonicWALL

MythTV with HDHomeRuns on VLAN

My kit for this exercise is: SonicWall: TZ 215, (SonicOS Enhanced 5.9.1.10-1o) SonicWall setup This section creates the SonicWall stuff that takes the VLAN from the VMware ESX host and connects it to a SonicWall interface port. To keep everything simple because we are using the SonicWall interface “X2” we will call the zones “HDHomeRunX2”… read more…
SonicWall VLAN to private physical interface

I had a Windows 10 VM, running inside VMware ESXi 6.0, which I needed to connect to the laptop as shown in the above diagram. In addition I needed both the laptop and VM to be on an isolated LAN which meant neither the VM nor laptop to should be able to access the internet… read more…
Connection timeout to DMZ for SonicWall

I have my public web server in my DMZ which is running on a VLAN. I am getting timeouts on my SSH connections. Login to the admin console and get to “Firewall | Access Rules” and change the viewing style to “Matrix”. Look for the button from LAN to DMZ and click on it: This… read more…
Public facing web server on SonicWALL VLAN

I have a SonicWALL TZ 205w sitting behind my fibre connection with my web server running on an ESXi server connected to the SonicWALL via a VLAN to isolate it from my LAN. This has proved to be a bit of a mission because I don’t have a modem between the SonicWALL and the ONT,… read more…
ESX VLAN to SonicWALL DMZ

I have an ESX server on my LAN and I want to connect it to the DMZ on my SonicWALL using a VLAN as the ESX server only has one network adaptor. The SonicWALL is a TZ 205w which is connected to Fibre. This in itself was a challenge and is described in the post… read more…
Connect SonicWALL TZ205w to Fibre ONT

We recently got fibre to our house using Spark as the ISP and of course Chorus as the installer. The fibre terminates in the house at the ONT, optical network terminal. The ONT has an Ethernet RJ-45 socket that you connect to the Spark supplied Huawei HG659b modem. At the time I had a SonicWALL TZ170… read more…